Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. Believe the hype – this will be one of the films of the year!
1952: In the Jewish heart of New York’s Lower East Side, we meet Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) – ping-pong legend in waiting, hustler, woman-slayer and then some. Essentially the film is about the calamitous, all-swaggering rise of Marty, including an interaction with ageing, married film star Kay Stone (Gwyneth Paltrow) on smoulderingly good form, who is seduced before being financially hoodwinked. The payback for Marty is a gloriously humiliating. Chalamet turns in an Oscar-worthy performance with a titular character that is by equal turns an arrogant, abrasive people user while also being completely lovable and endearing.
USA 2025 Josh Safdie 149m
